GSWS101

Question 0

Brazen femme

Answer 0

In your face, unapologetic

Question 1

Split britches

Answer 1

Exaggerating gender norms.

Think CAMP

Question 2

What does case say about normative gender?

Answer 2

It is a realist work of art, it is a realist performance

Question 3

What is “Butch Femme”

Answer 3

A CAMP kind of performance.
Think brazen, exaggerated
While it originates as a dynamic duo, it has been played with lots of different roles and performances.

Question 4

A polluting person

Answer 4

Someone that steps out of gender norms

Question 5

The story of Anges

Answer 5

Was a MTF trans who took mothers estrogen in order to get a sex change.

Question 6

Starvation economy

Answer 6

Panic, jealousy, ownership, defining self through having another person

Question 7

Polyamory

Answer 7

Being romantically involved withore than one person

Question 8

Serial monogamy

Answer 8

The conventional monogamous marriage

Question 9

Mainstream drag vs. Terrorist drag

Answer 9

Mainstream is sparkley, glamorous and fun while terrorist was meant to scare you, make you think. Often taken to another level.

Question 10

DisIdentification

Answer 10

Deliberately performing in order to cope and re-appropriate what the normative society is saying

Question 11

Terrorist Drag

Answer 11

Does try to “pass” as the opposite gender.

Challenges the gender binary

Question 12

Misrecognition

Answer 12

Purposely taking things that are recognized as normative and doing the opposite (where the absurdity is recognizable)

Question 13

Organic intellect

Answer 13

An intellectual without the need for academics. Through actions and things such as zines, artistic performances and intellectual perspectives.

Question 14

Counter identification

Answer 14

Taking something and performing the opposite.

Question 15

Interiorized passing

Answer 15

Embodying the headspace but not the physical space.

Question 16

Social body

Answer 16

The embodiment of where we perform our gender and sexuality. When we perform our gender, it is our social body doing the performing

Question 17

Zine

Answer 17

Short documents (about 29 pages) mostly used in activist circles

Question 18

Pastiche

Answer 18

using art to imitate. Can be linked to parody, related to camp.

Question 19

Hermeneutic

Answer 19

Using disidentification to come out it w space in the hardcore scene

Question 20

Intersectionality

Answer 20

Late 70s, early 80s, feminists were looking at all issues the same. A gay woman’s experience is not the same as a transgenders etc.

Question 21

Social blocks

Answer 21

Social groups segregated depending on race, views, sexuality etc.

Davis experiences the world as a woman, she does not conform to any of the norms within her social blocks. (Munoz)

Question 22

How can the cyborg help us overcome oppression?

Answer 22

Joins with other cyborgs through affinity, not identity. Affiinty speaks to feelings of empathy and those feelings can change normative ideals and “othering” which can help us overcome oppression.

Question 23

What is a cyborg?

Answer 23

A cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction

No innocent original story, never unified or whole.
Neither human nor machine, neither human nor animal
Joins with other cyborgs through routes of affinity, not identity

Question 24

Haraway’s conception of animal/human and human/machine relationships

Answer 24

Blurred borders between man/machine

• technologies
• though we have animal instincts we are evolving past our human biological nature.

Question 25

Haraway and feminism

Answer 25

Because different genres of feminism contradict each other, they work against each other.
Just like the cyborg is “unnatural” without boundaries, humans are and need to be able to question those boundaries

Question 26

Explain dualism

Haraway

Answer 26

Mind and body are two separate entities.
Descartes identifies the mind with consciousness and self awareness while the brain (body) is intelligence.
Haraway speaks of dualism relating to man/machine. Though two separate things they are strongly related.

Question 27

Why are transgender people disproportionately represented in the prison population?
“It’s war in here” - SRLP report

Answer 27

Common to be imprisoned because they are forced to commit crimes due to lack of support from society.
Sex work is common amongst trans;
Bills for surgery need to be paid. Who is going to hire a trans man/women? Dismissed by society. Misunderstood. Find a place of understanding with other trans who tend to be into crime related ways of making money. Kicked out of their homes at a young age. Systemic discrimination, intersectionality, Disidentification

Question 28

Spade “mutilating gender”

Answer 28

The story of anges: took mothers estrogen pills to fool the system into thinking she was born with a penis by accident. Succeeded in getting a sex change even though it was illegal at the time unless you proved you were born with both female and male parts.
Later on, one wld have to “pass” as a transgender in order to get a sex change. Various stereotypes were used to determine your “true sex” goes completely against the gender spectrum. Gender is not one or the other.

Question 29

Kipnis “how to look at pornography”

Answer 29

Exposed the culture to itself. 
Democratic, resonates with judgments of social class and taste.
It forces us to face our true desires, we are all sick minded and afraid to admit it. Our lives revolve around sex and society tries to tell us that it is low or ugly. By opening our minds to all kinds of bodies porn becomes a good thing

Question 30

Halberstam “an intro to female masculinity”

Answer 30

The world suggest that if we are not male, we are female. And visa versa
This makes it impossible to truly identify ourselves
Gender is a spectrum
Masculinity is only defined by comparison.
A white, middle class, make body is not recognized as masculine because it is the norm. While masculinity on a female is brazen.

Question 31

Bordo “unbearable weight”

Answer 31

Dieting and chosen pain/body denial is done in the same way as “mortifying the flesh” (making the body matter less) Now it’s done to make the body matter more. Exercise.
Our emphasis on attain a tight body reflects our cultural anxieties about our bodies borders
Most of us find happiness through following norms, we are threatened by ones ability to be happy without doing this. We accept fat ppl through pity, assuming they can’t be happy.
Hyper self discipline is a cultural norm.
Slenderness is a value system infused with gender norms, class, race
We link body size to other traits.

Question 32

What is the web that transgenders are caught in? How do they affect each other?

Answer 32

Prison > lack of opportunities > poverty > racial oppression > extra targeting by cultural authorities > transphobia/homophobia > lack of support system > prison

One of these struggles reinforces the others.

Question 33

Case “towards a butch-femme aesthetic”

Answer 33

Butch femme is a dynamic duo. Shows gender is an act (preformed) through their shared exaggeration of gender norms, interaction and collaboration
There are two ways to do art. Realism and camp. Normative gender is a realist work of art while butch femme is a camp kind of work

Question 34

SRLP

Answer 34

Started in 2002
African Americans make up 12.3% of national population and 43% of prison population. White: 69.3%; 37%
SRLP recommends adopting measures that will reduce the criminalization and imprisonment of transgender in recognition of the extreme danger this population faces while imprisoned
Make concrete changes to correctional policies to improve safety
Improve and Enhance grievance procedures and accountability measures to address assault, discrimination and abuse
Ensure access to adequate medical and mental health, gender appropriate clothing.

Question 35

Haraway “a cyborg manifesto”

Answer 35

We glamorize birth even though it’s full of blood and pain (need for technology)
Tools of technology become a part of our body, our existence. We live beyond natural capacity. We need technology.
Convection to social class; people without access to technology norms are considered “less human”
We think of emotion as biological. But feelings exist according to interpretation and social norms. Emotions are learned (technology) from conventions ( think ethical slut and jealousy)

Question 36

Liberal feminism

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Focuses on the individual. It is the idea that individual can overcome their oppressions by asserting and maintaining equality through their own actions and choices

Question 37

Socialist feminism

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Focussed on private and public spheres of women’s lives. Equality can only be achieved through tackling social and economic sources of oppression

Question 38

Marxist feminism

Answer 38

Assert that women’s oppression comes from capitalist systems. If we abolish capitalism we will have equality.

Question 39

Radical feminism

Answer 39

Getting to the root of women’s oppression. They argue that this root is patriarchy. Our entire system is based on patriarchal relations. In order to eliminate oppression we need to radically reorganize our society.